Mount Stagnaro

Mount Stagnaro
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height	1130 m
location	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Mountains	Sarnoff Mountains , Ford Ranges
Coordinates	77 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W Coordinates: 77 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 144 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W

Mount Stagnaro is a 1130 m high mountain in Marie Byrd Land in western Antarctica . It rises 5 km east-northeast of Mount González in the Sarnoff Mountains of the Ford Ranges .

Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1980 after the amateur radio operator John Andrew Stagnaro (1911-1979) from La Crescenta-Montrose , California , who had radio links to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station , McMurdo Station , Palmer Station and Siple in the 1970s Station for the scientists working there to communicate with their families.

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